Sentence examples for to which they clung from inspiring English sources

Torres made his debut in hell, light amid the darkness – the hope to which they clung.

From that on-the-ground reporting, we know that on that terrible day Zhang and his wife choked down mouthfuls of water, pitched by the merciless current, before finding trees to which they clung in the early hours of July 20th.

Researchers believed that molecular interactions between the microscopic branching hairs on the gecko's footpads and the surface to which they clung were responsible for the gravity-defying feats.

Timber merchants in Kalimantan and Aceh also sell slow lorises to traders, and since the primates cling to branches instead of fleeing, they are often transported hundreds of miles on the original tree branches to which they clung.

They have two ideas, malpractice reform and interstate purchasing, which they clung to all day like Al Gore with his lockbox.

They said a Goodwill job developer had given them crudely made identification cards and letters promising employment, which they clung to, even though every supposed start date came and went with nothing but an excuse.

While lower-court judges have generally upheld that principle, the reed to which they have clung -- a concurrence by Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr. in a Supreme Court case from 1972 known as Branzburg -- has been characterized as relatively thin in several recent decisions.

Through tidal action, millions of herring eggs had been deposited on the beach — tiny, crystalline objects, which, as they clung to branches of fucus and other growth, seemed to cover the plants with glistening hoarfrost.

Through tidal action, millions of herring eggs had been deposited on the beach tiny, crystalline objects, which, as they clung to branches of fucus and other growth, seemed to cover the plants with glistening hoarfrost.

He and Isherwood experienced a blind terror during which, afraid to let go, they clung to each other all night in their hotel room.

It was Conrad who gave him the motto to which he clung, as if to a lifeline, in the long years that followed.